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Finding Genius Podcast

Michael Smolenski - CEO At Lightstreams - The Blockchain For Speed And Privacy

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Lightstreams is a blockchain project that specializes in the private peer-to-peer content distribution of information between groups of people and communities. Lightstreams revolutionizes the manner in which information flows. By using, blockchain and decentralized storage together put individuals back where they belong – in the driving seat. Whether it's for sharing data within a close circle, selling it on the open market (via PHT tokens ), or simply as a secure storage means, Lightstreams is poised to reinvent data privacy in the digital age.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

0:07.0

Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

0:13.0

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

0:17.0

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

0:21.0

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:25.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast. I'm your host

0:31.0

Juliet Lamar and joining us today is Michael Somelinsky. He is the CEO at

0:37.6

live streams. Welcome Michael, I'm sorry I could up your name again. That's all right, it's a Polish name but I'm not Polish. It's

0:45.1

Mo Lenski originally from New Zealand. Oh I can hear your accent. You do sound a

0:49.9

little a little New Zealand like. It's kind of a little bit

0:53.4

British in New Zealand actually. I lived a long time in England.

0:56.4

Oh, that's, we'll have to get back to that.

0:59.1

So you're the CEO at Lightstream. Can you give our audience a little snapshot about what Light Streams is and what you do there?

1:06.0

Yeah, okay, so Light Streams is a blockchain company.

1:11.0

So, Light Streams is about creating technology that will enable real-world usage and

1:16.2

widespread adoption of decentralized applications.

1:20.6

So we've built some unique technology around this.

1:24.5

So our blockchain is a specialized blockchain for content distribution.

1:30.9

And what we do there is authorized content distribution.

1:34.4

So you can think of content as things like music, video,

1:39.9

art, images, and also intellectual property and personal identity information.

1:48.0

So all that content can be used by the decentralized applications, which are new kind of applications,

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